The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

the New York Press Club are estimated
to be worth in the aggregate 1000, 900.
Quarrel in Cafe.-"I know you.
You are loaferr' "And you are n
liar!'' "You appear to know me, toop'
Paris Figaro.
"A mountain rat, ten inches high,
and about foot long, captured on the
island of Trinidad, has been added to
the Central Park IN. W menagerie.
MANY timid little girls will be glad
f, to hear that Prof. Carl Braun, of Bates
College, says that the "devil's darning
needle" hasno sting at all, but NE eats
millions OF mosquitoes.
The invention of the war cycle, a
velocipede that carries ten soldiers, is
considered so valuable in England that
they are to build one for twenty-six
men, thirteen to work the cycle and
thirteen to yide.-N Y Sun.
Joseph Frick, of Erie, Pa, while
driving balSy horse the other day
tried to encourage the animal by punch
ing it with the breech of his gun. The
gun was discharged, blowing Frick's
arm off.
AT fire alarm in Birmingham,
Ala, the hook and ladder truck was
driven out, and after going around sew
eral blocks the driver returned to the
station house and asked Treasurer
Evans where the fire was.
Even snakes have their uses In
California they destroy gophers and
ground squirrels, and the local papers
express the opinion that some varieties.
of snakes ought to be protected by law.
Little Dot-.'Mamma, can't l go
over to see Lucy to-dayp" Mamma
"You must not 60 anywhere near
Lucy. She has the measles" "Well,
I isn't 'fraid of measles. Can't gov'
''If--if you should take the measles.
perhaps your dollie might get them.''
"Oh! didn't fink of that. Chicago
Tribune.
-"My DEAR" said Mrs. Lilton to her
husband, 'why do they so often put
appraiser after an auctioneer's
nameP" Because, madam, an auc.
tioneer is praiser of the goods he.
"A Paris cabman who committed
suicide the other day left the following
explanatory note: II leave this world
because it pleases me to do so. I have
had enough of driving other people
about in this world. am going to see
if in the other world people drive diff
ferently. All I ask is that no fuss may
be made about me. "-Chicaqo Herald.
Omaha Dame-"What became of
the young man who stole your dia-
mondsp" st. Louis Dame-"He has
been sent to prison for five years"
'In St. LOUISE" II believe so." '.They
will send him North ip the summer,
though, 1 supposep' mo, he must
spend his summers in st. Louis, too"
"Why, that's absolute cruelty
Omaha World.
"A Detroit paper says: "The steal
ing of two clocks from one of the Pres
byterian churches in this city last Sun
day morning was piece of cold-blood--
ed cruelty. The amount of comfort and
encouragement some people derive
from an occasional glance at the clock
during a service is not to be put in fig
ures, unless one uses the Roman fig
ures usually seen on the dial. Chris
tian Union.
The inspection of meat in Berlin is
a very important matter. Twelve vet
crinary surgeons are employed to stamp
it before slaughter, and forty micro
scopic samplers are continually en-
gagged in examining the meat exposed
for sale. Besides these 100 experts are
employed in various duties, twenty-six
of whom are women. = PHILADELPHIA
Press.
On the great mesas of California,
at the foot of the Nevada range, turkeys
are kept in great focks of from 500 to
1.500. They are allowed the utmost
liberty, and are attended only by q
herder and his shepherd dog, whose
business it is to keep them in his terri
tory, and bring them home at night.
Their food is grasshoppers and wild
seed.-St. Louis Republican.
"A new use for the tobacco plant
has been discovered. Its stems and
waste, it is claimed, are equal to linen
rags in the manufacture of paper. To-
bacco waste costs less than $40 a ton,
linen rags $40 to $780, There is no ex-
pensc in asserting the former and very
little shrinkage, as against loss of
one-third of rags. The yearly tobacco
waste is estimated by the census reports
at from 100000 to 4,OOO,O 900 pounds.
Christian Union.
"A shrewd piece of swindling is re-
ported by the French papers as having
occurred ut the races. Two men, ap-
parently Of the book-maker profession,
had managed to pocket several hun
dred francs on betting, when an official
looking person caused them to be taken
and led off the ground, to the evident
regret of the bystanders. 1t was not
long, however, before it was found out
that the pseudo policemen were in
league with their supposed victims and
had only disappeared to divide the easy
haul with them.
Dr. Chudnowski recently expert
on twelve Russian soldiers with
a view to discovering the effect of cold
applications to the epigastrium on the
rapidity of digestion. Each soldier
regaled heartily; his epigastrium was
refrigerated, and the exciting
contest began. Unfortunately for